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  I always have my doubts about hot-news social science research ("Being liberal extends your life!"), but this research below see...

Cooper with Ross and Spellings. Yes, that photo is from today. Photo Jeff Tiberii This morning Gov. Cooper announced that he is naming a sp...

  Hattip to reporter Joe Killian for posting a link to the editorial in Science , "Universities are not political prizes." It opin...

One of the ironies of the Republican/conservative/free-market ideology as it's taken root in our university system … For all its e...

News leaked yesterday and hit the News and Observer this morning that UNC President Margaret Spellings is out, or about to be out, after...

John Wynne, the Civitas conservative who writes occasionally for Thomas Mills' PoliticsNC, was lecturing liberals yesterday morning tha...

The Republicans in the General Assembly are handing out appointments -- or in several cases, re appointments -- to the University of Nor...

Boone is ranked 23rd on a list of the 100 smartest cities in the U.S. Burlington, NC, ranked 52nd, but Chapel Hill didn't even make the...

A North Carolina right-wing "think tank" (if "thinking" means "maintaining ideological purity"), connected to ...

Rep. Virginia Foxx, who receives hefty campaign contributions from the for-profit higher education industry, is fighting the Obama adminis...

Good background on the Supreme Court case that led to the ruling that every college student is entitled to vote where he/she goes to colleg...

Hattip: DBS.

You'll perhaps recall Gov. Pat McCrory's honest opinion about liberal arts education . He and his budget director, Art Pope, are p...

Two Appalachian State University students earned an in-depth profile in the New York Times , interviewed about their struggles to get th...

Gov. McCrory We're only weeks into the McCrory administration and already we have one of those quotes that's going to haunt him ...

The signs are multiplying and they are explicit. The Boss of the North Carolina Republican Party sees our state's universities as Publ...

Congresswoman Virginia Foxx is more important than you can imagine, waaay too important for your peasant and peanut-sized brain to even b...

Ken Ilgunas, in today's Winston-Salem Journal : ...[Virginia] Foxx has plenty of tolerance for today's broken system of higher edu...

Foxx made a bizarre remark last week about American students, saying she has “very little tolerance” for young people saddled with student...

Credit: AP/Jose Luis Magana At the same time that Foxx has been bragging that she has no tolerance for students who rack up debt to get...